20 June,2009 01:34 PM IST | | A Correspondent
Congress city chief, Kripashankar Singh, at a Congress function today said, that Mumbai belonged to the Koli community.
Using strong words he stated that original Mumbaikars are the Koli community and Mumbai is theiru00a0 father's property and no else can claim to be it's original inhabitants.
"The Koli community will stay firmly with us and our party leader Sonia Gandhi. We are confident of this," said Singh, at the felicitation function for newly appointed Congress leaders.
Other senior leaders including CM Ashok Chavan, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Murli Deora were also present at the event.